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6. Thou art tip (ágra) of the waters; I let you go down unto the ocean.

7. The fire that is in the waters, it do I let go, the dimming, digging, body-spoiling one.

8. The fire that entered into you, O waters, this is that; what of you is terrible, this is that.

9. May [it] pour upon you with Indra's Indra-power (indriyá).

10. Free from defilement (-riprá) [are] the waters; let them [carry] away from us defilement;—

11. Let them carry forth from us sin; let them carry forth evil-dreaming.

12. With propitious eye look at me, O waters; with propitious body touch my skin.

13. We call the propitious fires that sit in the waters. Put in me dominion [and] splendor, O divine [waters].

1. Out of evil-eating (?) with refreshment [comes] speech rich in honey.